A Paul Dunbar poem, perhaps with a nod to Keats’s “To Autumn,” welcomes in October.
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Tag Archives: Autumn
The Annual Maple Dance
Scott Bates’s “Maple Dance” never gets old.
Trees Don Their Fall Finery
Dickinson’s excitement about fall colors can be seen in her stepping out of her comfort zone and putting “a trinket on.”
the passing of all shining things
e.e. cummings has a dialogue with Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” in his own poem about autumn. I include Frost and Oliver in the reflection as well.
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September Days Are Here
A lovely “September” poem by Helen Hunt Jackson.
No Flowers, No Leaves, November
An antidote to feeling gloomy in November is to embrace the gloom by reading gloomy November poems. I offer several here.
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Nature’s Autumn Jazz Tune
An autumn poem to lift your spirits.